U. S. TOP TEN BEST SELLER LISTS
1900-1929
1 9 0 0 F I C T I O N
1. To Have and To Hold, Mary Johnston
2. Red Pottage, Mary Cholmondeley
3. Unleavened Bread, Robert Grant
4. The Reign of Law, James Lane Allen
5. Eben Holden, Irving Bacheller
6. Janice Meredith, Paul Leicester Ford
7. The Redemption of David Corson, Charles Frederic Goss
8. Richard Carvel, Winston Churchill
9. When Knighthood Was in Flower, Charles Major
10. Alice of Old Vincennes, Maurice Thompson
1 9 0 1 F I C T I O N
1. The Crisis, Winston Churchill
2. Alice of Old Vincennes, Maurice Thompson
3. The Helmet of Navarre, Bertha Runkle
4. The Right of Way, Gilbert Parker
5. Eben Holden, Irving Bacheller
6. The Visits of Elizabeth, Elinor Glyn
7. The Puppet Crown, Harold MacGrath
8. Richard Yea-and-Nay, Maurice Hewlett
9. Graustark, George Barr McCutcheon
10. D'ri and I, Irving Bacheller
1 9 0 2 F I C T I O N
1. The Virginian, Owen Wister
2. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Alice Caldwell Hegan
3. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, Charles Major
4. The Mississippi Bubble, Emerson Hough
5. Audrey, Mary Johnston
6. The Right of Way, Gilbert Parker
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles, A. Conan Doyle
8. The Two Vanrevels, Booth Tarkington
9. The Blue Flower, Henry van Dyke
10. Sir Richard Calmady, Lucas Malet
1 9 0 3 F I C T I O N
1. Lady Rose's Daughter, Mary Augusta Ward
2. Gordon Keith, Thomas Nelson Page
3. The Pit, Frank Norris
4. Lovey Mary, Alice Hegan Rice
5. The Virginian, Owen Wister
6. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Alice Hegan Rice
7. The Mettle of the Pasture, James Lane Allen
8. Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, George Horace Lorimer
9. The One Woman, Thomas Dixon Jr.
10. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, John Fox Jr.
1 9 0 4 F I C T I O N
1. The Crossing, Winston Churchill
2. The Deliverance, Ellen Glasgow
3. The Masquerader, anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston)
4. In the Bishop's Carriage, Miriam Michelson
5. Sir Mortimer, Mary Johnston
6. Beverly of Graustark, George Barr McCutcheon
7. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, John Fox Jr.
8. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
9. My Friend Prospero, Henry Harland
10. The Silent Places, Stewart Edward White
1 9 0 5 F I C T I O N
1. The Marriage of William Ashe, Mary Augusta Ward
2. Sandy, Alice Hegan Rice
3. The Garden of Allah, Robert Hichens
4. The Clansman, Thomas Dixon Jr.
5. Nedra, George Barr McCutcheon
6. The Gambler, Katherine Cecil Thurston
7. The Masquerader, anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston)
8. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
9. The Princess Passes, C. N. and A. M. Williamson
10. Rose o' the River, Kate Douglas Wiggin
1 9 0 6 F I C T I O N
1. Coniston, Winston Churchill
2. Lady Baltimore, Owen Wister
3. The Fighting Chance, Robert W. Chambers
4. The House of a Thousand Candles, Meredith Nicholson
5. Jane Cable, George Barr McCutcheon
6. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
7. The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, Margaret Deland
8. The Spoilers, Rex Beach
9. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
10. The Wheel of Life, Ellen Glasgow
1 9 0 7 F I C T I O N
1. The Lady of the Decoration, Frances Little
2. The Weavers, Gilbert Parker
3. The Port of Missing Men, Meredith Nicholson
4. The Shuttle, Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. The Brass Bowl, Louis J. Vance
6. Satan Sanderson, Hallie Erminie Rives
7. The Daughter of Anderson Crow, George Barr McCutcheon
8. The Younger Set, Robert W. Chambers
9. The Doctor, Ralph Connor
10. Half a Rogue, Harold MacGrath
1 9 0 8 F I C T I O N
1. Mr. Crewe's Career, Winston Churchill
2. The Barrier, Rex Beach
3. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, John Fox Jr.
4. The Lure of the Mask, Harold MacGrath
5. The Shuttle, Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Peter, F. Hopkinson Smith
7. Lewis Rand, Mary Johnston
8. The Black Bag, Louis J. Vance
9. The Man from Brodney's, George Barr McCutcheon
10. The Weavers, Gilbert Parker
1 9 0 9 F I C T I O N
1. The Inner Shrine, anonymous (Basil King)
2. Katrine, Elinor Macartney Lane
3. The Silver Horde, Rex Beach
4. The Man in Lower Ten, Mary Roberts Rinehart
5. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, John Fox Jr.
6. Truxton King, George Barr McCutcheon
7. 54-40 or Fight, Emerson Hough
8. The Goose Girl, Harold MacGrath
9. Peter, F. Hopkinson Smith
10. Septimus, William J. Locke
1 9 1 0 F I C T I O N
1. The Rosary, Florence Barclay
2. A Modern Chronicle, Winston Churchill
3. The Wild Olive, anonymous (Basil King)
4. Max, Katherine Cecil Thurston
5. The Kingdom of Slender Swords, Hallie Erminie Rives
6. Simon the Jester, William J. Locke
7. Lord Loveland Discovers America, C. N. and A. M. Williamson
8. The Window at the White Cat, Mary Roberts Rinehart
9. Molly Make-Believe, Eleanor Abbott
10. When a Man Marries, Mary Roberts Rinehart
1 9 1 1 F I C T I O N
1. The Broad Highway, Jeffrey Farnol
2. The Prodigal Judge, Vaughan Kester
3. The Winning of Barbara Worth, Harold Bell Wright
4. Queed, Henry Sydnor Harrison
5. The Harvester, Gene Stratton Porter
6. The Iron Woman, Margaret Deland
7. The Long Roll, Mary Johnston
8. Molly Make-Believe, Eleanor Abbott
9. The Rosary, Florence Barclay
10. The Common Law, Robert W. Chambers
1 9 1 2 F I C T I O N
1. The Harvester, Gene Stratton Porter
2. The Street Called Straight, Basil King
3. Their Yesterdays, Harold Bell Wright
4. The Melting of Molly, Maria Thompson Daviess
5. A Hoosier Chronicle, Meredith Nicholson
6. The Winning of Barbara Worth, Harold Bell Wright
7. The Just and the Unjust, Vaughan Kester
8. The Net, Rex Beach
9. Tante, Anne Douglas Sedgwick
10. Fran, J. Breckenridge Ellis
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Promised Land, Mary Antin
2. The Montessori Method, Maria Montessori
3. South America, James Bryce
4. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Jane Addams
5. Three Plays, Eugène Brieux
6. Your United States, Arnold Bennett
7. Creative Evolution, Henri Bergson
8. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett
9. Woman and Labor, Olive Schreiner
10. Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine
1 9 1 3 F I C T I O N
1. The Inside of the Cup, Winston Churchill
2. V. V.'s Eyes, Henry Sydnor Harrison
3. Laddie, Gene Stratton Porter
4. The Judgment House, Sir Gilbert Parker
5. Heart of the Hills, John Fox Jr.
6. The Amateur Gentleman, Jeffrey Farnol
7. The Woman Thou Gavest Me, Hall Caine
8. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
9. The Valiants of Virginia, Hallie Erminie Rives
10. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Crowds, Gerald Stanley Lee
2. Germany and the Germans, Price Collier
3. Zone Policeman 88, Harry A. Franck
4. The New Freedom, Woodrow Wilson
5. South America, James Bryce
6. Your United States, Arnold Bennett
7. The Promised Land, Mary Antin
8. Auction Bridge To-Day, Milton C. Work
9. Three Plays, Eugène Brieux
10. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, Hugo Munsterberg
1 9 1 4 F I C T I O N
1. The Eyes of the World, Harold Bell Wright
2. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
3. The Inside of the Cup, Winston Churchill
4. The Salamander, Owen Johnson
5. The Fortunate Youth, William J. Locke
6. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. Penrod, Booth Tarkington
8. Diane of the Green Van, Leona Dalrymple
9. The Devil's Garden, W. B. Maxwell
10. The Prince of Graustark, George Barr McCutcheon
1 9 1 5 F I C T I O N
1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington
2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill
3. Michael O'Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter
4. Pollyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter
5. K, Mary Roberts Rinehart
6. Jaffery, William J. Locke
7. Felix O'Day, F. Hopkinson Smith
8. The Harbor, Ernest Poole
9. The Lone Star Ranger, Zane Grey
10. Angela's Business, Henry Sydnor Harrison
1 9 1 6 F I C T I O N
1. Seventeen, Booth Tarkington
2. When a Man's a Man, Harold Bell Wright
3. Just David, Eleanor H. Porter
4. Mr. Britling Sees It Through, H. G. Wells
5. Life and Gabriella, Ellen Glasgow
6. The Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster
7. Bars of Iron, Ethel M. Dell
8. Nan of Music Mountain, Frank H. Spearman
9. Dear Enemy, Jean Webster
10. The Heart of Rachael, Kathleen Norris
1 9 1 7 F I C T I O N
1. Mr. Britling Sees It Through, H. G. Wells
2. The Light in the Clearing, Irving Bacheller
3. The Red Planet, William J. Locke
4. The Road to Understanding, Eleanor H. Porter
5. Wildfire, Zane Grey
6. Christine, Alice Cholmondeley
7. In the Wilderness, Robert S. Hichens
8. His Family, Ernest Poole
9. The Definite Object, Jeffrey Farnol
10. The Hundredth Chance, Ethel M. Dell
G E N E R A L - N O N F I C T I O N
1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Robert W. Service
2. The Plattsburg Manual, O. O. Ellis and E. B. Garey
3. Raymond, Sir Oliver Lodge
4. Poems of Alan Seeger, Alan Seeger
5. God the Invisible King, H. G. Wells
6. Laugh and Live, Douglas Fairbanks
7. Better Meals for Less Money, Mary Green
W A R - B O O K S
1. The First Hundred Thousand, Ian Hay
2. My Home in the Field of Honor, Frances W. Huard
3. A Student in Arms, Donald Hankey
4. Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey
5. Carry On, Coningsby Dawson
6. Getting Together, Ian Hay
7. My Second Year of the War, Frederick Palmer
8. The Land of Deepening Shadow, D. Thomas Curtin
9. Italy, France and Britain at War, H. G. Wells
10. The Worn Doorstep, Margaret Sherwood
1 9 1 8 F I C T I O N
1. The U. P. Trail, Zane Grey
2. The Tree of Heaven, May Sinclair
3. The Amazing Interlude, Mary Roberts Rinehart
4. Dere Mable, Edward Streeter
5. Oh, Money! Money!, Eleanor H. Porter
6. Greatheart, Ethel M. Dell
7. The Major, Ralph Connor
8. The Pawns Count, E. Phillips Oppenheim
9. A Daughter of the Land, Gene Stratton Porter
10. Sonia, Stephen McKenna
G E N E R A L - N O N F I C T I O N
1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Robert W. Service
2. Treasury of War Poetry, G. H. Clark
3. With the Colors, Everard J. Appleton
4. Recollections, Viscount Morley
5. Laugh and Live, Douglas Fairbanks
6. Mark Twain's Letters, Albert Bigelow Paine, editor
7. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, Richard Harding
Davis
8. Over Here, Edgar Guest
9. Diplomatic Days, Edith O'Shaughnessy
10. Poems of Alan Seeger, Alan Seeger
W A R - B O O K S
1. My Four Years in Germany, James W. Gerard
2. The Glory of the Trenches, Coningsby Dawson
3. Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey
4. A Minstrel in France, Harry Lauder
5. Private Peat, Harold R. Peat
6. Outwitting the Hun, Lieut. Pat O'Brien
7. Face to Face with Kaiserism, James W. Gerard
8. Carry On, Coningsby Dawson
9. Out to Win, Coningsby Dawson
10. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
1 9 1 9 F I C T I O N
1. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, V. Blasco Ibañez
2. The Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad
3. The Desert of Wheat, Zane Grey
4. Dangerous Days, Mary Roberts Rinehart
5. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land, Ralph Connor
6. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent, Harold Bell Wright
7. Dawn, Gene Stratton Porter
8. The Tin Soldier, Temple Bailey
9. Christopher and Columbus, "Elizabeth"
10. In Secret, Robert W. Chambers
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
2. The Years Between, Rudyard Kipling
3. Belgium, Brand Whitlock
4. The Seven Purposes, Margaret Cameron
5. In Flanders Fields, John McCrae
6. Bolshevism, John Spargo
1 9 2 0 F I C T I O N
1. The Man of the Forest, Zane Grey
2. Kindred of the Dust, Peter B. Kyne
3. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent, Harold Bell Wright
4. The River's End, James Oliver Curwood
5. A Man for the Ages, Irving Bacheller
6. Mary-Marie, Eleanor H. Porter
7. The Portygee, Joseph C. Lincoln
8. The Great Impersonation, E. Phillips Oppenheim
9. The Lamp in the Desert, Ethel M. Dell
10. Harriet and the Piper, Kathleen Norris
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Now It Can Be Told, Philip Gibbs
2. The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John M. Keynes
3. Roosevelt's Letters to His Children, Joseph B. Bishop, editor
4. Theodore Roosevelt, William Roscoe Thayer
5. White Shadows in the South Seas, Frederick O'Brien
6. An American Idyll, Cornelia Stratton Parker
1 9 2 1 F I C T I O N
1. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
2. The Brimming Cup, Dorothy Canfield
3. The Mysterious Rider, Zane Grey
4. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
5. The Valley of Silent Men, James Oliver Curwood
6. The Sheik, Edith M. Hull
7. A Poor Wise Man, Mary Roberts Rinehart
8. Her Father's Daughter, Gene Stratton Porter
9. The Sisters-in-Law, Gertrude Atherton
10. The Kingdom Round the Corner, Coningsby Dawson
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells
2. White Shadows in the South Seas, Frederick O'Brien
3. The Mirrors of Downing Street, A Gentleman with a Duster (pseudonym
for Harold Begbie)
4. The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, Margot Asquith
6. Peace Negotiations, Robert Lansing
1 9 2 2 F I C T I O N
1. If Winter Comes, A.S.M. Hutchinson
2. The Sheik, Edith M. Hull
3. Gentle Julia, Booth Tarkington
4. The Head of the House of Coombe, Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. Simon Called Peter, Robert Keable
6. The Breaking Point, Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. This Freedom, A.S.M. Hutchinson
8. Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hémon
9. To the Last Man, Zane Grey
10. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis (tie)
10. Helen of the Old House, Harold Bell Wright (tie)
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells
2. The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon
3. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok
4. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters
5. The Mind in the Making, James Harvey Robinson
6. The Outline of Science, J. Arthur Thomson
7. Outwitting Our Nerves, Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
8. Queen Victoria, Lytton Strachey
9. Mirrors of Washington, anonymous (Clinton W. Gilbert)
10. Painted Windows, A Gentleman with a Duster (pseudonym for Harold
Begbie)
1 9 2 3 F I C T I O N
1. Black Oxen, Gertrude Atherton
2. His Children's Children, Arthur Train
3. The Enchanted April, "Elizabeth"
4. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
5. The Dim Lantern, Temple Bailey
6. This Freedom, A.S.M. Hutchinson
7. The Mine with the Iron Door, Harold Bell Wright
8. The Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey
9. The Sea-Hawk, Rafael Sabatini
10. The Breaking Point, Mary Roberts Rinehart
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Etiquette, Emily Post
2. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini
3. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick, editor
4. The Mind in the Making, James Harvey Robinson
5. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells
6. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters
7. Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion, Emile Coué
8. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok
9. The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon
10. A Man from Maine, Edward Bok
1 9 2 4 F I C T I O N
1. So Big, Edna Ferber
2. The Plastic Age, Percy Marks
3. The Little French Girl, Anne Douglas Sedgwick
4. The Heirs Apparent, Philip Gibbs
5. A Gentleman of Courage, James Oliver Curwood
6. The Call of the Canyon, Zane Grey
7. The Midlander, Booth Tarkington
8. The Coast of Folly, Coningsby Dawson
9. Mistress Wilding, Rafael Sabatini
10. The Homemaker, Dorothy Canfield Fisher
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters
2. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini
3. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, Fannie Farmer, editor
4. Etiquette, Emily Post
5. Ariel, André Maurois
6. The Cross Word Puzzle Books, Prosper Buranelli, et al.
7. Mark Twain's Autobiography, Mark Twain
8. Saint Joan, Bernard Shaw
9. The New Decalogue of Science, Albert E. Wiggam
10. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok
1 9 2 5 F I C T I O N
1. Soundings, A. Hamilton Gibbs
2. The Constant Nymph, Margaret Kennedy
3. The Keeper of the Bees, Gene Stratton Porter
4. Glorious Apollo, E. Barrington
5. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen
6. The Little French Girl, Anne Douglas Sedgwick
7. Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
8. The Perennial Bachelor, Anne Parrish
9. The Carolinian, Rafael Sabatini
10. One Increasing Purpose, A.S.M. Hutchinson
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters
2. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, rev. ed., Fannie Farmer, editor
3. When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne
4. The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton
5. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini
6. Ariel, André Maurois
7. Twice Thirty, Edward Bok
8. Twenty-Five Years, Lord Grey
9. Anatole France Himself, J. J. Brousson
10. The Cross Word Puzzle Books, Prosper Buranelli, et al.
1 9 2 6 F I C T I O N
1. The Private Life of Helen of Troy, John Erskine
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos
3. Sorrell and Son, Warwick Deeping
4. The Hounds of Spring, Sylvia Thompson
5. Beau Sabreur, P. C. Wren
6. The Silver Spoon, John Galsworthy
7. Beau Geste, P. C. Wren
8. Show Boat, Edna Ferber
9. After Noon, Susan Ertz
10. The Blue Window, Temple Bailey
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton
2. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, George A. Dorsey
3. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters
4. Our Times, Vol. I, Mark Sullivan
5. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, rev. ed., Fannie Farmer, editor
6. Auction Bridge Complete, Milton C. Work
7. The Book Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton
8. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant
9. The Light of Faith, Edgar A. Guest
10. Jefferson and Hamilton, Claude G. Bowers
1 9 2 7 F I C T I O N
1. Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
2. The Plutocrat, Booth Tarkington
3. Doomsday, Warwick Deeping
4. Sorrell and Son, Warwick Deeping
5. Jalna, Mazo de la Roche
6. Lost Ecstasy, Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. Twilight Sleep, Edith Wharton
8. Tomorrow Morning, Anne Parrish
9. The Old Countess, Anne Douglas Sedgwick
10. A Good Woman, Louis Bromfield
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant
2. Napoleon, Emil Ludwig
3. Revolt in the Desert, T. E. Lawrence
4. Trader Horn, Vol. I, Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis
5. We, Charles A. Lindbergh
6. Ask Me Another, Julian Spafford and Lucien Esty
7. The Royal Road to Romance, Richard Halliburton
8. The Glorious Adventure, Richard Halliburton
9. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, George A. Dorsey
10. Mother India, Katherine Mayo
1 9 2 8 F I C T I O N
1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
2. Wintersmoon, Hugh Walpole
3. Swan Song, John Galsworthy
4. The Greene Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine
5. Bad Girl, Viña Delmar
6. Claire Ambler, Booth Tarkington
7. Old Pybus, Warwick Deeping
8. All Kneeling, Anne Parrish
9. Jalna, Mazo de la Roche
10. The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, Louis Bromfield
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Disraeli, André Maurois
2. Mother India, Katherine Mayo
3. Trader Horn, Vol. I, Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis
4. Napoleon, Emil Ludwig
5. Strange Interlude, Eugene O'Neill
6. We, Charles A. Lindbergh
7. Count Luckner, the Sea Devil, Lowell Thomas
8. Goethe, Emil Ludwig
9. Skyward, Richard E. Byrd
10. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, George
Bernard Shaw
1 9 2 9 F I C T I O N
1. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
2. Dodsworth, Sinclair Lewis
3. Dark Hester, Anne Douglas Sedgwick
4. The Bishop Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine
5. Roper's Row, Warwick Deeping
6. Peder Victorious, O. E. Rölvaag
7. Mamba's Daughters, DuBose Heyward
8. The Galaxy, Susan Ertz
9. Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin
10. Joseph and His Brethren, H. W. Freeman
N O N F I C T I O N
1. The Art of Thinking, Ernest Dimnet
2. Henry the Eighth, Francis Hackett
3. The Cradle of the Deep, Joan Lowell
4. Elizabeth and Essex, Lytton Strachey
5. The Specialist, Chic Sale
6. A Preface to Morals, Walter Lippmann
7. Believe It or Not, Robert L. Ripley
8. John Brown's Body, Stephen Vincent Benét
9. The Tragic Era, Claude G. Bowers
10. The Mansions of Philosophy, Will Durant
